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References

Professor Jack Williams

jwwilliams1@wisc.edu

Professor George Perry

george.perry@auckland.ac.nz



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Quinn Asena

Post-doctoral research associate developing and applying new statistical methods to palaeoecological data to understand ecosystem responses to environmental change. Working with Jack Williams and Tony Ives on data across North America on an NSF funded project: Abrupt Change in Ecosystems. I also like to get hands on in the field and lab.

Education

PhD, University of Auckland

School of Environment

Auckland, NZ

2021 - 2017

  • PhD explored virtual ecological methods for generating pseudoproxy data to assess statistical inferences under data uncertainty.
  • Supervised by George Perry and Janet Wilmshurst

MEnv. Environmental Science

University of York

York, UK

2016 - 2012

  • 1st class integrated masters degree in environmental science. Master’s researched involved environmental monitoring using sensor networks and robotics.

Certified Carpentries instructor

Global digital skills community

Virtual

N/A

  • Certified to host and assist in running workshops from The Carpentries organisation

Selected Positions

Post-doctoral research associate

University or Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

Present - 2022

  • NSF grant, developing state-space modelling methods to analyse palaeoeological records
  • Abrupt change in ecosystems project lead by Jack Williams and Anthony Ives

Research Assistant

University of Auckland

Auckland, NZ

2022 - 2021

  • Conducting a bibliometric analysis on the topic of climate justice

Engagement Specialist

Centre for e-Research

Auckland, NZ

2022 - 2021

  • Engaging with researchers to provide advice and resources for their research compute needs
  • Includes technical skills for virtual machines (Linux, Bash, Slurm), high performance computing, and version control

Articles and Publications
















Courses

Attended several courses during my PhD to improve my software proficiency and scientific understanding including:

Software courses:

  • - Software Carpentry
  • - Winter Bootcamp
  • - Research Bazaar

University Papers/Modules:

  • - Environmental Data Analysis
  • - Modelling of Environmental Systems






Skills

  • - programming
  • - High performance computing
  • - Microscopy
  • - ITRAX core scanning
  • - Peat core preparation

Population viability analyses in New Zealand: a review

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

N/A

2018

  • Simpkins et al.

Packages, apps and resources

George Perry Lab

Interested in the lab group? Visit George Perry’s lab group: Spatial Ecology Group




Williams Lab

Check out the Williams lab




Ives Lab

See what the Ives Lab group do




Authoring collaborative research projects in Quarto

Workshop

N/A

2023 - 2022

fisheR

R package

N/A

2019

  • Translation of python script for calculating Fisher’s Information on time-series data
  • Code available on GitHub

Population growth app

Shiny app

N/A

2019

Population growth lecture aid app

Shiny app

N/A

2019

Selected Workshops and Conferences

BES: Palaeo in R

British Ecological Society

Virtual

2022

  • Speaker on virtual ecological methods to assessing uncertainty in palaeoecological data using pseudoproxies

AGU

American Geophysical Union

Chicago, IL

2022

  • Speaker on virtual ecological methods for assessing uncertainty in palaeoecological data using pseudoproxies

AMQUA

American Quaternary Association

Madison, WI

2022

  • Poster session on virtual ecological methods to assessing uncertainty in palaeoecological data using pseudoproxies